Bothy Band - The Maid of Coolmore ( with Tríona Ní Dhomhnail

[danaraina]

This is really pretty. I also recommend Cara Dillon's, which is up on youtube under "Maid of Culmore," though hers is a bit more popularized.

[udor1962]

@danaraina

Hallo danaraina,

I think this also so - TNX for You comment ...

[PhalainaBelgium]

Outstanding singer and song !! Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish traditional singer, pianist, and composer, considered one of the most influential female vocalists in the history of Irish music. She is famed for her work with traditional Irish groups such as Skara Brae, The Bothy Band, Relativity, Touchstone, and Nightnoise.

[PhalainaBelgium]

One of the best of the Bothy Band !! Phalaïna

[MrEdgardsilvajunior]

BEAUTIFUL SONG AS WELL AS THE VOICE AND INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT

[Wademedic63]

Love this song. Chilling and beautiful

[GanoMaganza]

I'm literally in tears

[Chartres1000]

This is, unequivocally the finest version I've ever heard.

[robcmoseley]

It wrings my heart.

[robcmoseley]

Sublime.

[lucky16a]

i drank my way  about the country with them i oncce stayed in my home towm of ballaghadeereen matts home too, we played in the oak dance hal but we drand and played for 4 days solid in the railway hotel in ballaghadeereer, what days those weere

[lucky16a]

i  drank my way about the country with them i oncce stayed in my home towm of ballaghadeereen matts home too, we played in the oak dance hal but we drand and played for 4 days solid in the railway hotel in ballaghadeereer, what days those weere

[McClernand2]

Nil mise in ann gan a caoineadh nuair a chloisim an amhran chomh gruamach sin...

[Lyathurin]

I love that song..

[TheHungryKarmaBowler]

for she sailed down Lough Foyle and away from Coolmore, i presume has to be the lyric

[CoolAidDrinker]

@TheHungryKarmaBowler Spot on. More reliable lyrics at celticlyricscorner

[richardyingren]

wow!!

[richardyingren]

Their first album was so astounding.... I'm eighteen again .. thirty four years on !!

[murderballad74]

thanks for sharing this - the lyric in the first verse is actually "there is not a nicer harbour"

[munsterfloyd]

Thought it was "heaven".

[Frontier39]

Beautiful....thank you.

[franklymike]

Bothy Band are the best. John Peel introduced me to them on the radio and the strength of their music will last forever

[mbhluvskmy]

love the Bothy Band...would play this while travelling through Kenmare back up to Galway.

[vietlocninh]

thank you very much

[Maxiclaudi]

I know a version which goes a tad faster, but I still love this beatiful song!

[burkardheike]

beautiful song...there´s also a german version with this melodie

[briangroovy]

The word at the end of the second verse is Lough Foyle and she puts the 'a' in after to fill out the rhythm

[heliotropezzz333]

@briangroovy or could it be "she sailed down Lough Foyle and away from Coolmore"

[briangroovy]

i think you're right actually, now that you say it. thanks for the tip!

[LuciannaFurtado]

That's completely wonderful... what a sweet voice! and so beautiful words. thanks for posting.

[UniversalHoldiay]

this song is..amazing...i've never hears something so beautiful. It's even more beautiful than Maids of Mitchell (sp) Town. *sighs* so peaceful...makes me choke up a little

[Gambit118]

i love cara dillons version its class

[MrJeffkiki]

No words. Only tears of emotion.

[heliotropezzz333]

I love Triona Ni Dhomhnail's voice. It has great resonance and timbre. She did some solo stuff ,but it's hard to find much. There's more stuff by her sister Maire, but Maire has a more conventionally nice voice I think. I saw both of them sing and play in a little church in the middle of the Barbican. It was magical.

[backpaincure]

This song always gets me -- I think the last line of the refrain is "she sailed out of Ireland away from Coolmore . ." but where is Coolmore anyway? Anyway I adore the Bothy Band and have since I was fifteen and first heard the record with this one on it. They're just the best.

[cebrownf]

Culmore is a little town near Londonderry on Lough Foyle, You can Google earth it very easily. Always made me happy that this, my favorite Irish song, came from Northern Ireland, where my family came from.

[lilinghsiao]

The most beautiful song ever!

[TellTaleBard]

if you think is beautiful, check out Benedy Glen!!!

[nighthawk006]

TellTale

I see what you mean!

But I think I like them both equally.

[nighthawk006]

Thanks for posting - one of my all time favourites (band and song)! *****

[DASHMUND]

Hi. Dashmund here again. Have worked out the chords quite well. I suspect a few need to be substituted by bar chords which I have never been able to master. Don't know how to get them to anyone, however so if you want them you'll have to let me know how to post them.

[DASHMUND]

Was feeling sad and revisited some old music and found the Bothy Band. I'm not Irish but a priest friend of mine who studied in Dublin and who passionately loves the Irish spirit, put me onto them. He is such a tortured soul but so full of passion, which emanates so much from the all the music of the Bothy Band. This song reaches my soul so deeply.

I am trying to work out the chords (guitar)but many are eluding me. Has anyone managed to do so? Would love to hear from you. I want to sing this.

[bruceleeC64]

The bothy band, legends... all of them...

[Fishmonger1966]

Beautiful. My jaw is on the floor. I love this band.

[brownjenkinstail]

Thank you, Braybanger :)

[braybanger]

oh and

'there is no other nicer harbour'

Cheers!

Love this song!

[braybanger]

Howdy, just some lyrics:

Its 'Lough Foyle'

I would blow the wind 'higher'(both times!)

To the north of Americay, my love I'll search for,

for there I know no-one nor-a no-one knows me.

[brownjenkinstail]

I grew up on Bothy Band. The songs with Triona were always my favorite (This and Do You Love An Apple, amongst many others).

My father played the Bohdran/drums in a few bands til recently. They "covered" Bothy and Chieftans all the time.

Hearing this for the first time in a LONG time makes me want to cry.

Jacob

[mongoosemabel]

Some lyric corrections for the song info (I'm not being rude or anything these are the things you have in brackets!

(heather) = harbour

Loch (Foilagh) = off Ireland

(Salt seas is right!)

sail (forth) = send for.

Loch (Foilagh) = off Ireland.

Hope I've helped :)

xxx

[franklymike]

Discovered this band via John Peel way back.Have not listened to this song for years though I always loved it. What a band and what a song. Only Planxty "Thousands are sailing" can match it for nostalgia. Of course Donal Lunny figured in both.

[mitchmallow]

agree, great to hear the old ballads

[MrSteve55]

thanx for posting this... glad to find the older Irish ballads

[1965bridget]

Beatiful - always made me weep

[stephysaintsin]

i adore this song thank you so much for putting it up

[StevieMcKnightLewis]

well dOne !